Migrants

DIABETES, HOW WE CAN PREVENT IT, HOW WE NEED TO KEEP IT UNDER CONTROL

Migrant workers are faced with a strong need for change and adaptation to new contexts, including lifestyle, nutritional habits, leisure activities, etc.

In recent years clinical investigations carried out for migrant workers gave evidence that the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and hypertension within the communities of these workers is far from negligible .  Easy  documents  on how to steer lifestyle and nutritional habits towards prevention can therefore be helpful.

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German Road Safety

Mobility is a requirement to participate in social life. With the help of mobility people can meet their individual needs and participate actively in their environment. But still mobility holds risks and dangers. Every day, people are involved in traffic accidents. We have to record fatalities and serious injuries every day.

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HERE WE WORK WELL

This short guide aims to explain some basic concepts of prevention in the workplaces. When we organize training courses, we try to create a channel of communication through which we want to share some simple concepts between professionals – whose language is not always easily understandable – and those who wish to learn more about prevention. This glossary also briefly explains the organization of prevention within Italian companies and we therefore believe that it will be particularly useful to migrant workers. 

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PRELIMINARY INSTRUCTIONS FOR GOOD HEALTH AND ZERO ACCIDENTS WHILST WORKING IN HOTELS, RESTAURANTS OR PIZZERIAS

More than twenty years since the landing of 20,000 Albanians with the sugar bowl Vlora in the Port of Bari (August 1991), the very first mass immigration to Italy, our Country has now got more than four million foreign residents, many of whom engaged in work activities.

The Italian government recently ruled that all workers should be guaranteed both a 4-hour general safety training and a specific training relating to their own specific occupational risk (at least 4 additional hours for tourism personnel );every new employee must receive this training and every five years refresher courses must also provided (Agreement between the Italian Government and its Regions, December 2011).

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